diff --git a/docs/AURORA_NATIVE_RUNTIME.md b/docs/AURORA_NATIVE_RUNTIME.md
index 767a60c..58247b4 100644
--- a/docs/AURORA_NATIVE_RUNTIME.md
+++ b/docs/AURORA_NATIVE_RUNTIME.md
@@ -26,11 +26,12 @@ Every project receives reserved loopback ports, generated service configuration,
 2. Native process supervisor and loopback port allocator.
 3. Linux x64 bundle with PHP 8.5, nginx, MariaDB 11.8, and WP-CLI.
 4. Native project lifecycle and single-site WordPress provisioning.
-5. Native logs, database import/export, and database administration.
-6. macOS arm64/x64 and Windows x64 bundles.
-7. Additional PHP/database versions, Apache, Drupal, Node.js, and developer services.
+5. Native service logs, compressed snapshots, and database import/export.
+6. Native database administration.
+7. macOS arm64/x64 and Windows x64 bundles.
+8. Additional PHP/database versions, Apache, Drupal, Node.js, and developer services.
 
-Dockside enables native project creation only when an installed platform bundle contains the selected PHP branch, nginx, MariaDB 11.8, and WP-CLI. Existing projects default to the container engine for backward compatibility. The native smoke suite starts all three services, serves PHP through FastCGI, provisions a real WordPress site, and verifies its HTTP response and cleanup.
+Dockside enables native project creation only when an installed platform bundle contains the selected PHP branch, nginx, MariaDB 11.8, and WP-CLI. Existing projects default to the container engine for backward compatibility. The native smoke suite starts all three services, serves PHP through FastCGI, provisions a real WordPress site, round-trips its database through the bundled dump and restore clients, and verifies its HTTP response and cleanup.
 
 ## Runtime update notifications
 
diff --git a/runtime-build/linux-x64/stage-runtime.sh b/runtime-build/linux-x64/stage-runtime.sh
index 6780064..985df54 100644
--- a/runtime-build/linux-x64/stage-runtime.sh
+++ b/runtime-build/linux-x64/stage-runtime.sh
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ copy_binary_and_libraries /usr/local/bin/php
 copy_binary_and_libraries /usr/local/sbin/php-fpm
 copy_binary_and_libraries /usr/sbin/nginx
 copy_binary_and_libraries /usr/bin/mariadbd
+copy_binary_and_libraries /usr/bin/mariadb
+copy_binary_and_libraries /usr/bin/mariadb-dump
 copy_binary_and_libraries /usr/bin/mariadb-install-db
 copy_binary_and_libraries /usr/bin/my_print_defaults
 copy_binary_and_libraries /usr/bin/resolveip
@@ -79,7 +81,7 @@ done
 # Put the ELF programs behind relocatable wrappers so those calls also use the
 # bundled musl loader instead of the host's /lib interpreter.
 mkdir -p "$root/usr/libexec/aurora"
-for name in mariadbd my_print_defaults resolveip; do
+for name in mariadbd mariadb mariadb-dump my_print_defaults resolveip; do
   mv "$root/usr/bin/$name" "$root/usr/libexec/aurora/$name"
   cat > "$root/usr/bin/$name" <<EOF
 #!/bin/sh
@@ -103,6 +105,14 @@ exec "$(dirname "$0")/aurora-exec" /usr/libexec/aurora/mariadbd "$@"
 EOF
 chmod +x "$stage/bin/mariadbd"
 
+for name in mariadb mariadb-dump; do
+  cat > "$stage/bin/$name" <<EOF
+#!/bin/sh
+exec "\$(dirname "\$0")/aurora-exec" "/usr/libexec/aurora/$name" "\$@"
+EOF
+  chmod +x "$stage/bin/$name"
+done
+
 cp /tmp/wp-cli.phar "$root/usr/local/bin/wp-cli.phar"
 cat > "$stage/bin/wp" <<'EOF'
 #!/bin/sh
@@ -124,6 +134,8 @@ cat > "$stage/runtime.template.json" <<EOF
     { "id": "php", "version": "$php_version", "executable": "bin/php-fpm" },
     { "id": "nginx", "version": "$nginx_version", "executable": "bin/nginx" },
     { "id": "mariadb", "version": "$mariadb_version", "executable": "bin/mariadbd" },
+    { "id": "mariadb-client", "version": "$mariadb_version", "executable": "bin/mariadb" },
+    { "id": "mariadb-dump", "version": "$mariadb_version", "executable": "bin/mariadb-dump" },
     { "id": "wp-cli", "version": "2.12.0", "executable": "bin/wp" }
   ]
 }
diff --git a/scripts/smoke-native-runtime.cjs b/scripts/smoke-native-runtime.cjs
index b8b26dd..a57f0de 100644
--- a/scripts/smoke-native-runtime.cjs
+++ b/scripts/smoke-native-runtime.cjs
@@ -34,6 +34,18 @@ const checks = [
     join(root, 'bin/wp'),
     ['--version'],
     template.components.find((item) => item.id === 'wp-cli')?.version
+  ],
+  [
+    'MariaDB client',
+    join(root, 'bin/mariadb'),
+    ['--version'],
+    template.components.find((item) => item.id === 'mariadb')?.version
+  ],
+  [
+    'MariaDB dump',
+    join(root, 'bin/mariadb-dump'),
+    ['--version'],
+    template.components.find((item) => item.id === 'mariadb')?.version
   ]
 ]
 for (const [name, command, args, version] of checks) {
diff --git a/src/main/auroraEngine.ts b/src/main/auroraEngine.ts
index f335293..d670dd5 100644
--- a/src/main/auroraEngine.ts
+++ b/src/main/auroraEngine.ts
@@ -702,11 +702,8 @@ export async function getNativeProjectDefinition(
   return config.runtimeEngine === 'native' ? nativeDefinition(root, config) : null
 }
 
-export async function getProjectConfigByRoot(
-  root: string
-): Promise<{ database: 'mariadb' | 'mysql' | 'postgres'; databaseVersion: string; name: string }> {
-  const config = await readConfig(root)
-  return { database: config.database, databaseVersion: config.databaseVersion, name: config.name }
+export async function getProjectConfigByRoot(root: string): Promise<AuroraConfig> {
+  return readConfig(root)
 }
 
 async function ensureCertificateAuthority(): Promise<void> {
diff --git a/src/main/ipc/database.ts b/src/main/ipc/database.ts
index c482168..e11b13d 100644
--- a/src/main/ipc/database.ts
+++ b/src/main/ipc/database.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ import { basename, join } from 'path'
 import { spawn } from 'child_process'
 import { createGunzip, createGzip } from 'zlib'
 import { AURORA_ENV, getProjectConfigByRoot } from '../auroraEngine'
+import { startNativeProject } from '../native/nativeProject'
+import { runtimeRoot } from '../nativeRuntime'
 import type { AuroraSnapshot } from '../../shared/types'
 
 const snapshotsDir = (root: string): string => join(root, '.aurora', 'snapshots')
@@ -16,7 +18,10 @@ function safeSnapshotName(value?: string): string {
   return safe || fallback
 }
 
-function dbCommand(type: 'mariadb' | 'mysql' | 'postgres', mode: 'dump' | 'restore'): { command: string; args: string[] } {
+function dbCommand(
+  type: 'mariadb' | 'mysql' | 'postgres',
+  mode: 'dump' | 'restore'
+): { command: string; args: string[] } {
   if (type === 'postgres') {
     return mode === 'dump'
       ? { command: 'pg_dump', args: ['-U', 'db', '-d', 'db', '--clean', '--if-exists'] }
@@ -24,29 +29,72 @@ function dbCommand(type: 'mariadb' | 'mysql' | 'postgres', mode: 'dump' | 'resto
   }
   if (type === 'mysql') {
     return mode === 'dump'
-      ? { command: 'mysqldump', args: ['-udb', '-pdb', '--single-transaction', '--routines', '--triggers', 'db'] }
+      ? {
+          command: 'mysqldump',
+          args: ['-udb', '-pdb', '--single-transaction', '--routines', '--triggers', 'db']
+        }
       : { command: 'mysql', args: ['-udb', '-pdb', 'db'] }
   }
   return mode === 'dump'
-    ? { command: 'mariadb-dump', args: ['-udb', '-pdb', '--single-transaction', '--routines', '--triggers', 'db'] }
+    ? {
+        command: 'mariadb-dump',
+        args: ['-udb', '-pdb', '--single-transaction', '--routines', '--triggers', 'db']
+      }
     : { command: 'mariadb', args: ['-udb', '-pdb', 'db'] }
 }
 
-function runDatabasePipe(root: string, type: 'mariadb' | 'mysql' | 'postgres', mode: 'dump' | 'restore', filePath: string): Promise<void> {
+async function runDatabasePipe(
+  root: string,
+  mode: 'dump' | 'restore',
+  filePath: string
+): Promise<void> {
+  const config = await getProjectConfigByRoot(root)
+  let command: string
+  let args: string[]
+  if (config.runtimeEngine === 'native') {
+    if (!config.nativePorts) throw new Error('Native project has no allocated database port.')
+    if (config.database !== 'mariadb')
+      throw new Error('Aurora Native database portability currently supports MariaDB.')
+    await startNativeProject({
+      name: config.name,
+      root,
+      docroot: config.docroot,
+      ports: config.nativePorts
+    })
+    command = join(runtimeRoot(), 'bin', mode === 'dump' ? 'mariadb-dump' : 'mariadb')
+    args = [
+      '--host=127.0.0.1',
+      `--port=${config.nativePorts.database}`,
+      '--user=db',
+      '--password=db',
+      ...(mode === 'dump' ? ['--single-transaction', '--routines', '--triggers'] : []),
+      'db'
+    ]
+  } else {
+    const db = dbCommand(config.database, mode)
+    command = 'docker'
+    args = ['compose', '-f', composeFile(root), 'exec', '-T', 'db', db.command, ...db.args]
+  }
   return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-    const db = dbCommand(type, mode)
-    const child = spawn('docker', ['compose', '-f', composeFile(root), 'exec', '-T', 'db', db.command, ...db.args], {
-      cwd: root, env: AURORA_ENV, stdio: ['pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe']
+    const child = spawn(command, args, {
+      cwd: root,
+      env: AURORA_ENV,
+      stdio: ['pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe']
     })
     let stderr = ''
-    child.stderr.on('data', (chunk) => { stderr += chunk.toString() })
+    child.stderr.on('data', (chunk) => {
+      stderr += chunk.toString()
+    })
     const gz = filePath.endsWith('.gz')
     let outputFinished = Promise.resolve()
     if (mode === 'dump') {
       const output = createWriteStream(filePath)
       const source = gz ? child.stdout.pipe(createGzip()) : child.stdout
       source.pipe(output)
-      outputFinished = new Promise<void>((done, fail) => { output.on('finish', done); output.on('error', fail) })
+      outputFinished = new Promise<void>((done, fail) => {
+        output.on('finish', done)
+        output.on('error', fail)
+      })
     } else {
       const input = createReadStream(filePath)
       const source = gz ? input.pipe(createGunzip()) : input
@@ -55,8 +103,14 @@ function runDatabasePipe(root: string, type: 'mariadb' | 'mysql' | 'postgres', m
     }
     child.on('error', reject)
     child.on('close', async (code) => {
-      if (code !== 0) return reject(new Error(stderr.trim() || `Database command exited with code ${code}`))
-      try { await outputFinished; resolve() } catch (error) { reject(error) }
+      if (code !== 0)
+        return reject(new Error(stderr.trim() || `Database command exited with code ${code}`))
+      try {
+        await outputFinished
+        resolve()
+      } catch (error) {
+        reject(error)
+      }
     })
   })
 }
@@ -65,22 +119,72 @@ async function listSnapshots(root: string): Promise<AuroraSnapshot[]> {
   const dir = snapshotsDir(root)
   await mkdir(dir, { recursive: true })
   const files = (await readdir(dir)).filter((name) => name.endsWith('.sql.gz'))
-  const rows = await Promise.all(files.map(async (name) => ({ Name: name.replace(/\.sql\.gz$/, ''), Created: (await stat(join(dir, name))).mtime.toISOString() })))
+  const rows = await Promise.all(
+    files.map(async (name) => ({
+      Name: name.replace(/\.sql\.gz$/, ''),
+      Created: (await stat(join(dir, name))).mtime.toISOString()
+    }))
+  )
   return rows.sort((a, b) => b.Created.localeCompare(a.Created))
 }
 
-export function registerDatabaseIpc():void {
-  ipcMain.handle('database:listSnapshots', (_event, _name: string, root: string) => listSnapshots(root))
-  ipcMain.handle('database:createSnapshot', async (_event, _operationId: string, root: string, name?: string) => {
-    const config = await getProjectConfigByRoot(root); await mkdir(snapshotsDir(root), { recursive: true })
-    await runDatabasePipe(root, config.database, 'dump', join(snapshotsDir(root), `${safeSnapshotName(name)}.sql.gz`))
+export function registerDatabaseIpc(): void {
+  ipcMain.handle('database:listSnapshots', (_event, _name: string, root: string) =>
+    listSnapshots(root)
+  )
+  ipcMain.handle(
+    'database:createSnapshot',
+    async (_event, _operationId: string, root: string, name?: string) => {
+      await mkdir(snapshotsDir(root), { recursive: true })
+      await runDatabasePipe(
+        root,
+        'dump',
+        join(snapshotsDir(root), `${safeSnapshotName(name)}.sql.gz`)
+      )
+    }
+  )
+  ipcMain.handle(
+    'database:restoreSnapshot',
+    async (_event, _operationId: string, root: string, name: string) => {
+      await runDatabasePipe(
+        root,
+        'restore',
+        join(snapshotsDir(root), `${safeSnapshotName(name)}.sql.gz`)
+      )
+    }
+  )
+  ipcMain.handle(
+    'database:deleteSnapshot',
+    async (_event, _operationId: string, root: string, name: string) =>
+      rm(join(snapshotsDir(root), `${safeSnapshotName(name)}.sql.gz`), { force: true })
+  )
+  ipcMain.handle(
+    'database:importFile',
+    async (_event, _operationId: string, root: string, filePath: string) => {
+      await runDatabasePipe(root, 'restore', filePath)
+    }
+  )
+  ipcMain.handle(
+    'database:exportFile',
+    async (_event, _operationId: string, root: string, filePath: string) => {
+      await runDatabasePipe(root, 'dump', filePath)
+    }
+  )
+  ipcMain.handle('database:pickImportFile', async () => {
+    const r = await dialog.showOpenDialog({
+      properties: ['openFile'],
+      filters: [{ name: 'SQL dumps', extensions: ['sql', 'gz'] }]
+    })
+    return r.canceled ? null : r.filePaths[0]
   })
-  ipcMain.handle('database:restoreSnapshot', async (_event, _operationId: string, root: string, name: string) => {
-    const config = await getProjectConfigByRoot(root); await runDatabasePipe(root, config.database, 'restore', join(snapshotsDir(root), `${safeSnapshotName(name)}.sql.gz`))
+  ipcMain.handle('database:pickExportPath', async (_e, name: string) => {
+    const r = await dialog.showSaveDialog({
+      defaultPath: basename(name).endsWith('.gz') ? name : `${name}.sql.gz`,
+      filters: [
+        { name: 'Compressed SQL dump', extensions: ['gz'] },
+        { name: 'SQL dump', extensions: ['sql'] }
+      ]
+    })
+    return r.canceled ? null : r.filePath
   })
-  ipcMain.handle('database:deleteSnapshot', async (_event, _operationId: string, root: string, name: string) => rm(join(snapshotsDir(root), `${safeSnapshotName(name)}.sql.gz`), { force: true }))
-  ipcMain.handle('database:importFile', async (_event, _operationId: string, root: string, filePath: string) => { const config = await getProjectConfigByRoot(root); await runDatabasePipe(root, config.database, 'restore', filePath) })
-  ipcMain.handle('database:exportFile', async (_event, _operationId: string, root: string, filePath: string) => { const config = await getProjectConfigByRoot(root); await runDatabasePipe(root, config.database, 'dump', filePath) })
-  ipcMain.handle('database:pickImportFile', async () => { const r=await dialog.showOpenDialog({properties:['openFile'],filters:[{name:'SQL dumps',extensions:['sql','gz']}]}); return r.canceled?null:r.filePaths[0] })
-  ipcMain.handle('database:pickExportPath', async (_e,name:string) => { const r=await dialog.showSaveDialog({defaultPath: basename(name).endsWith('.gz') ? name : `${name}.sql.gz`, filters:[{name:'Compressed SQL dump',extensions:['gz']},{name:'SQL dump',extensions:['sql']}]}); return r.canceled?null:r.filePath })
 }
diff --git a/src/main/ipc/logs.ts b/src/main/ipc/logs.ts
index ac946fc..7ddd88b 100644
--- a/src/main/ipc/logs.ts
+++ b/src/main/ipc/logs.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,43 @@
 import { ipcMain } from 'electron'
-import { getProjectRoot } from '../auroraEngine'
+import { join } from 'path'
+import { getProjectConfigByRoot, getProjectRoot } from '../auroraEngine'
 import { startLogStream } from '../commandRunner'
-export function registerLogsIpc():void{ipcMain.handle('logs:start',async(event,id:string,name:string,service:string)=>{const root=await getProjectRoot(name);startLogStream(id,'docker',['compose','-f',`${root}/.aurora/compose.yaml`,'logs','-f','--tail','200',service],event.sender,{cwd:root})})}
+
+function nativeLogFiles(root: string, service: string): string[] {
+  const logs = join(root, '.aurora', 'native', 'logs')
+  const files: Record<string, string[]> = {
+    database: ['database-process.log', 'mariadb.log'],
+    php: ['php-process.log', 'php.log'],
+    web: ['web-process.log', 'nginx.log', 'nginx-access.log']
+  }
+  const selected = files[service]
+  if (!selected) throw new Error(`Unknown native service '${service}'.`)
+  return selected.map((file) => join(logs, file))
+}
+
+export function registerLogsIpc(): void {
+  ipcMain.handle(
+    'logs:start',
+    async (event, operationId: string, name: string, service: string) => {
+      const root = await getProjectRoot(name)
+      const config = await getProjectConfigByRoot(root)
+      if (config.runtimeEngine === 'native') {
+        startLogStream(
+          operationId,
+          'tail',
+          ['-n', '200', '-F', ...nativeLogFiles(root, service)],
+          event.sender,
+          { cwd: root }
+        )
+        return
+      }
+      startLogStream(
+        operationId,
+        'docker',
+        ['compose', '-f', `${root}/.aurora/compose.yaml`, 'logs', '-f', '--tail', '200', service],
+        event.sender,
+        { cwd: root }
+      )
+    }
+  )
+}
diff --git a/src/main/native/nativeProject.test.ts b/src/main/native/nativeProject.test.ts
index 5d31701..f3e0400 100644
--- a/src/main/native/nativeProject.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/native/nativeProject.test.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { execFile } from 'child_process'
+import { execFile, spawn } from 'child_process'
 import { createRequire } from 'module'
 import { mkdtemp, readFile, writeFile } from 'fs/promises'
 import { tmpdir } from 'os'
@@ -22,6 +22,22 @@ const project = {
 }
 const execFileAsync = promisify(execFile)
 
+function runWithInput(command: string, args: string[], cwd: string, input: string): Promise<void> {
+  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    const child = spawn(command, args, { cwd, env: process.env, stdio: ['pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe'] })
+    let stderr = ''
+    child.stderr.on('data', (chunk) => {
+      stderr += chunk.toString()
+    })
+    child.on('error', reject)
+    child.on('close', (code) => {
+      if (code === 0) resolve()
+      else reject(new Error(stderr.trim() || `${command} exited with code ${code}`))
+    })
+    child.stdin.end(input)
+  })
+}
+
 describe('native project configuration', () => {
   it('isolates PHP-FPM on its allocated loopback port', () =>
     expect(renderPhpFpmConfig(project)).toContain('listen = 127.0.0.1:41002'))
@@ -119,6 +135,41 @@ it.runIf(Boolean(process.env.AURORA_NATIVE_WORDPRESS_SMOKE_ROOT))(
       const response = await fetch(`http://127.0.0.1:${definition.ports.http}`)
       expect(response.ok).toBe(true)
       expect(await response.text()).toContain('Aurora native smoke')
+
+      const databaseArgs = [
+        '--host=127.0.0.1',
+        `--port=${definition.ports.database}`,
+        '--user=db',
+        '--password=db',
+        'db'
+      ]
+      const dump = await execFileAsync(
+        join(runtime, 'bin', 'mariadb-dump'),
+        [...databaseArgs.slice(0, -1), '--single-transaction', 'db'],
+        { cwd: root, env: process.env, maxBuffer: 32 * 1024 * 1024 }
+      )
+      await execFileAsync(
+        join(runtime, 'bin', 'mariadb'),
+        [
+          ...databaseArgs,
+          '-e',
+          "UPDATE wp_options SET option_value='Changed' WHERE option_name='blogname'"
+        ],
+        { cwd: root, env: process.env }
+      )
+      await runWithInput(join(runtime, 'bin', 'mariadb'), databaseArgs, root, dump.stdout)
+      const restored = await execFileAsync(
+        join(runtime, 'bin', 'mariadb'),
+        [
+          ...databaseArgs,
+          '--batch',
+          '--skip-column-names',
+          '-e',
+          "SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name='blogname'"
+        ],
+        { cwd: root, env: process.env }
+      )
+      expect(restored.stdout.trim()).toBe('Aurora native smoke')
     } finally {
       await stopNativeProject(definition)
     }